Lianjiang Zhu (b. 1997, Wenzhou, China) is a London-based artist working with moving image, installation, and performance.
His practice examines how systems of encoding and recognition shape existence by structuring what becomes visible and acknowledged. He treats images not as representations but as processes that translate and reorganise subjects.
Through delay, substitution, obstruction, and material translation, He creates conditions in which presence becomes unstable and subjects become replaceable. His works propose that recognition is never neutral: every structure that enables visibility also produces exclusion. What cannot be recognised does not disappear; it remains latent, structurally present yet unseen.
He received his BFA in Visual Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Bologna, Italy (2021) and MA in Print from the Royal College of Art, London (2024).
Recent awards and residencies includes: Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist Residency, Shanghai (2025), Aesthetica Art Prize Longlist, UK (2025), and the Second Prize Winner at Kunstverein Hof, Germany (2024). His work has been exhibited or screened at Xi’an Art Museum (2025), the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2024), Cité internationale des arts, Paris (2024), Kunstverein Hof (2024), and Southwark Park Galleries, London (2024).
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朱连江（1997年生于中国温州），现生活于伦敦，创作涉及影像、装置与行为。
他的实践关注编码与识别机制如何通过结构化可见性来塑造存在条件。他将图像视为并非单纯的再现，而是一种运作过程——在其中，主体被转译、处理与重新组织。
通过延迟、替代、遮蔽与物质转译等策略，他构建出观看与在场发生错位的情境，使主体呈现出不稳定与可替代的状态。其作品指向一个观点，任何使事物得以被识别的结构同时也在生产排异；那些无法被系统纳入的部分并未消失，而是以遮蔽的形式存在——不可见，却仍然处于结构之中。
他于2021年获意大利博洛尼亚美术学院视觉艺术学士学位，2024年获英国皇家艺术学院版画硕士学位。